Formation and maintenance of blood-urine barrier in urothelium

Protoplasma

Volumn 246, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 3-14

  Kreft, Mateja Erdani ^a   Hudoklin, Samo ^a   Jezernik, Kristijan ^a   Romih, Rok ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Endocytosis; Golgi apparatus; Membrane differentiation; Permeability barrier; Tight junctions; Urinary bladder urothelium

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BLADDER; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE; UROTHELIUM; VASCULARIZATION;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; HUMANS; URINARY BLADDER; UROTHELIUM;

EID: 77957263701     PISSN: 0033183X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00709-010-0112-1     Document Type: Review

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